YOUR GEN INFLUENCE
Your gen influence – the impact you have on the generation born 20 or more years after you – increases in September. This will happen for a variety of reasons. Your son may become closer to you. You may find a niece becomes a bigger part of your world. A pregnancy or adoption could be confirmed. A work or charity project involving younger people takes off.You get the picture. You leave your mark on the next generation in all kinds of ways if you are typical of your sign. But in September, after months of frustration, you will be happily taking full, free advantage of being in the right time, and right place, with the right support. Sometimes all you need is a lover who can either get you pregnant, or happily become that way.

Aquarians are a diverse tribe, though, and some of you are about to experience your Jupiter cycle just by teaching kids to read.

THE NEW WORLD

The new world will seem bigger, more open and much easier to navigate within weeks. The old world made it very hard to deal with particular countries, cultures or nationalities. There was an inevitable, heavy situation for so many Aquarians around that in 2011 and 2012 and something (or someone) just would not go away. The turning points which bring about the end of the heaviness are already around you. In fact, August just delivered one. September will bring more. By October 5th the cycle is over.

The new world is also one in which you can teach or study (formally or informally) without a constant background noise of negativity. And this is also very true of writing and publishing, both Ninth House pursuits – as Saturn has been trawling through your Ninth House for a long time, even the skills or talents which came so naturally to you in previous years have become a major issue for you.

Wheels are in motion in September to bring about the end of the cycle and it will be 29 years before you go through such a tough transition period again, no matter if it was education, publishing, the internet, academia, travel, migration or multicultural issues which made life seem so tight and tough.

THE NEW PARTNERSHIPS

The shape of your partnership in late 2012 and beyond will be free of the negativity you experienced in 2011 and 2012. This applies no matter if you are single or in a relationship. You have been living through the toughest cycle in 29 years for love and sex. This ends on October 5th and September brings closure.

Expect important news about your former, current or potential partner after Monday 17th September. Of course, the news may come from them, personally. After the Sun changes signs on Saturday 22nd it seems that everyone outside the situation, can also see straight in! But having that outside reaction helps you become even clearer about the ramifications of the new situation. After that, in less than two weeks, you wake up to a world in which the business of being in a relationship with someone (obtaining closure with an ex, living within a marriage, pursuing someone new) is no longer tough.

Your partner may have gone through a change in his/her personality since 2010, or just a deep change in their circumstances. From October 5th, one way or another, the emotional weight begins to lighten.

If you are single then you have encountered Saturn types since 2010, and may have chosen not to sleep with any of them. Saturn is the archetype of fear and the people who have been around you may have been scared of life on some level.

There are so many lessons coming out of this cycle. The biggest lesson of all, as you, he or she will see in September, is that self-defeating behaviour comes out of a lack of trust. And that what we do to make ourselves feel secure, when we are scared of the future, is often worse than the so-called worst case scenario.

Some Aries people have been experiencing this cycle in connection with a professional partner.

The Seventh House also rules enemies and rivals, so it is also possible that if you prefer to avoid partnerships in your life, you have lived out the heaviness of the Saturn cycle through a person who is obviously against you. September is going to bring a key conversation, letter, e-mail or piece of news which paves the way for the first week of October, when the situation either ends – or circumstances alter so profoundly that you no longer care.

WORK, STUDY, VOLUNTEERING

September is one of the most important months of the year for deciding your future direction with a particular job, course or volunteer role. The Sun, Mercury and Ops are all in Virgo this month. So it's obvious to other people, there will be some crucial news and a woman (or female-dominated organisation) will promise better things. She may remind you of Margaret Thatcher back in 1979 as she stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street and told Britain that it had a future, after all. (Ops was discovered in 1979).

Key dates in this process include Thursday September 6th when Ops aligns with Chiron and Pluto.

You also need to come back to everything you have learned about people politics in the workplace (or at university) since 2008. The square between Uranus in Aries, your own sign and Pluto in Capricorn will bring things to a head. The square takes place on Wednesday September 19th.

One thing you are discovering about particular people or organisations is that the more extreme they are in their attempt to control, the bigger the comedown when nature takes its course.

Isn't that true, since 2008? You appear to have been affected in the most intense way, either by a dominating person or an entire organisation (or industry) best described as power-mad. And powerful!

Astrology is based on the natural world and the natural world has a particular rhythm. Even the Tyrannosaurus Rex became extinct. If you have someone (or a whole bunch of someones) around you who are dominating dinosaurs, it won't be too much longer before they are replaced. Or actually demoted (the corporate world often shunts people to sideways in order to actually move them down).

No later than January 2013 the astrology of your horoscope suggests that who or what seems to be so obviously out of control in September, will no longer be an issue. What that Uranus-Pluto square suggests on the 19th is a compromise of sweeping proportions which is about to dominate the final quarter of 2012. All the players in a particular situation will play musical chairs, either in terms of their actual job roles, or in terms of their invisible power base. The outcome will be much fairer.

YOUR AUDIENCE AWAITS

Finally, did you know that between September 2012 and June 2013 you will have a bigger audience for your ideas, opinions, words and self-expression? You will also have more ways to reach people – and better ways to clearly be heard, read or understood.

After a very lopsided three months, when you could see the potential but not the actual outcomes, you are free of the Moon's South Node and can take full advantage of the most wonderful opportunities – notably near Friday 21st September when Venus sextiles Jupiter. You are almost halfway through this cycle now, but you can make up for lost time in June, July and August by taking quick advantage of people and organisations which are powerful problem-solvers and huge life-enhancers.

The Uranus transit of your Third House is best described as the process of getting high-speed broadband. Of dealing with the massive, speedy impact of Twitter. Of trying to keep up with books that move on a screen. The revolution is actually being conducted by plenty of Aquarians and you may be one of them. If not you may be resisting change. But resistance is futile. And actually, going along with the changes to your world of communication is much more exciting.

Uranus, your ruler, is a time-marker for revolution in astrology. And also technology which relies on electricity – but particularly technology which is under development or in beta testing. Put that together in the horoscope house which used to rule dictionaries and the spoken word, language and vocabulary, and you begin to see what September is all about.

The Third House can describe the voice, for obvious reasons, and maybe this revolutionary cycle is about the way you sound to other people, or the words you are using. It's far more likely to be about computers, tablets and e-readers.

The revolution never stops and it goes on for years. You can never settle into it or settle down with it. Nor can you deny it or even try to fight it. In December when Uranus goes direct in Aries, you could feel wonderfully free and liberated if you choose the right path now. And the right path, even if it's difficult and confronting, is the one that is neon-lit in punk-rock pink and yellow.

Punk rock was astrologically timed by Uranus as was the American independence movement. None of it was easy. All of it was right. All of it challenged people. None of it was an easy fit at first – but time helped the adjustment. This is now what is happening to the way you speak, write, read and listen. And you will be set free.

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